20 
LAND & WATER 
May 17, 1917 
DOMESTIC 
ECONOMY 
Use Corn 
Sjrrup 
A'afncs and adiirfsses 0/ s/wps, ifJu'rc the articifs men/toned 
can be cbtained, will be forwarded on receipt of a postcard 
addressed to I'asscParlout, Land tS: Watkr. 5, Lliancery 
Lane, W.C 2. Any oilier in/ormaJion uill be given on request. 
]{cfore very long now, many a good house- 
wife will bo turning her thoughts to- 
wards jam making and fruit preservii.g. 
and the question of sugar will prom])tly arise. Owing to the 
sugar shortage the Board of Agriculture suggests that a pro- 
portion of com syrup should be used. This, last year, 
was tried with excellent results, both jam and preserves 
in which corn syrup played a part being excellent. 
Com syrup is made from maize and is a \'ery wholesome 
product possessing peculiar and valuable properties. The 
right proportion to use in jam making is one part of com 
syrup to two of sugar though the quantities vary in other 
recipes. The clever and experienced buyer of a big London 
grocerj- department is a great believer in com syru]), having 
studied the question from an independent point of view 
directly the Board of Agriculture mooted it. The syrup is 
useful in jam-making apart from the saving of sugar it entails, 
becau.se crystallisation of sugar is prevented, while the yield 
in jam is considerably augmented. 
This last point makes its chief claim to economy. There is 
also a pleasant tinge of patriotism over using com syrup, 
since there are big stocks in this country, and it naturally 
s;i\-es the available supplies of sugar. It is sold in seven 
pound tins costing 4s. 6d. 
Suede Fi:i!shed 
Lisle 
A firm whose gloves are always un- 
usually good are now scoring a great 
success with some of suMe finished lisle, 
so like suede that it is nothing short of an effort to detect the 
difference. These gloves are beautifully made and are silk 
lined, thus making them fit as perfectly as the most expensive 
suede glove in the market —now a costly affair. They wash 
quite beautifully and their life is probabU^ quite twice as fong 
as that of the ordinary wash-leather glove, if not indeed even 
a little longer. I^eople who are wearing them are delighted 
with the adv-antage the silk lining gives, for not only do they 
mould the hand very accurately as already mentioned, 
but they make the glove slip on and, off in the most delight- 
fully easy fashion. 
Tnese gloves are kept in black, white, yellow, and all kinds 
of pastel colours, in exquisite shades of beaver and grey. 
The silk lining is always white and the workmanship througaout 
is first class. The gloves have a couple of fasteners, and the 
price is 3s. gd. Also of suede finished lisle are some slip-on 
sacque gloves, white or black. The wrists of these turned back 
show a soft silk top lining, and very smart the whole thing is. 
Then there are some unlined gloves of this wonderful 
skin-resembhng fabric. They cost 2s. iid., and repay their 
initial cost over and over again before their career is ended. 
A Wonderful 
Tool 
The myriads of home gardeners should 
pay heed to a wonderful little tool, 
known as the steel hand-plough and 
trench-hoe. With this the least experienced gardener can 
get over the land in a remarkably quick way and do a great 
deal of useful work without much effort. The front part of 
the tool breaks up the land, the back hoes or weeds it, clean- 
ing the most neglected soil in a speedy and efficacious manner. 
When received the tool must be put firmly on the handle, 
quite an easy operation. It is light and balances so well 
that everybody using it declares it indisjxjnsable. 
Already it has been adopted with good results in Kew 
Gardens, and any amount of lecturers on land work, si).^aking 
throughout the kingdom, have signed it with the seal of then- 
approval. The maker sent a number of his tools to various 
horticultural authorities, wishing to get their opinion on it 
before he finally placed it on the market. Their opinion was 
favourable with flattering unanimity, and the instrument has 
Ixen used in many demonstrations. 
Such a tool is infinitely better than the majority of some- 
Ht clumsy garden implements that fall to oi:r lot. They in 
themselves are sufficiently fatiguing, but a clever little con- 
trivance hke this makes labour ligat and a hard task easy in 
an almost incredible way. 
It will be sent post free anywhere for 3s., carriag-' being 
paid. Since it first became known, it has been seiu broad- 
cast to all parts of the country, those concerned being in- 
cessantly employed packing and despatching it and always 
coping with Iresh orders. 
Some dropstitch lisle thread hose have at 
Cool Summer \^^^ arrived in this country from France, 
IOC mgs after a consi:'.erable delay, and repay 
buying. As a matter of fact they were actually ordered 
a t.vclvemonth ago, and this enables them to be sold at a 
lower price than the next consignment can carry. 
The quahty of these stockings is first rate. Though all 
lisle, they possess the silky finish the French have a unique 
knack of imparting' to their bettermost thread good^, a 
knack that we are only just beginning to acquire ourselves 
in our stocking manufactures. The dropstitch pattern, 
reaching all the way down the stocking is not only a very 
pretty and effective one but makes it just the thing for warm 
weather wear. Another feature is that these stockings are 
reliable ones, having the sp)ecial recommendation of the 
famous firm selling them — a recommendation which sensible 
people consider always worth hiving. 
They are kept in black, white, Lincoln green, navy blue, 
a range of browns and more tiian one shade of grey, and their 
price of 3s. gd. per pair, in view of all contingent circumstances, 
is worth giving. 
Gardening 
Gloves 
Slip on gloves made on the precise 
principle of a housemaid's glove are most 
useful wear for gardening or duties 
inside the house. They are of lamb-skin and are made in 
large sizes so that they slip on the hand very easily and do not 
confine it in any way. 
The thumb is specially strenglihened and the glove being 
a strong one the hands are protected when gardening, even 
when quite rough work is being done. Wlien dirty these 
gloves can be easily washed, for the skins are reliable and good 
and do not suffer in the soapsuds. The amateur gardener 
or farm worker would be well advised to invest in a pair of 
these gloves before she has damaged her hands needlesslv. 
Once this is done it is hard and tedious work to get them into 
even tolerable condition again. 
The gloves are kept in two kinds, the lighter weight pairs 
being 2s. 6d., and the heavy weight variety 3s. They arc being 
boug.it up so quickly by the many women now doing con- 
siderable work in their gardens that they should be secured 
without too long a lapse of time. 
Washing 
Corsets 
The comfort of really reliable corsets 
which will wash without injury either 
to their bones or themselves is immense 
as soon as summer approaches. It is not every corset claim- 
ing to be washable which can do so with perfect ivsHce. Some 
now being sold, however, fulfil to the very utmost all that they 
set out to do and can be confidently relied upon. 
Many points mark them for notice. In the first place 
they are very lightly boned, a feature several women appreciate 
in the warm season of the year, and som? few all the year 
round. The bones there are, are of real whalebone, so there 
is no need to remove them when the corset and washing tub 
meet. Then they are of good quality coutille, and are planned 
throughout on very hygienic lifies and specially suitable for 
V.A.D. and all kinds of war-workers. Added to all this the 
price is the most reasonable one of 9s. 6d. in all sizes. 
Most women know to their cost the ease with which a corset 
gets soiled round the waistline, and the annoyance it is until 
the mark is removed. In the usual way this means a visit 
to the cleaners, always la.her a business. These washable 
corsets simpHfy the probkm promptly and most conveniently, 
making cleaning at home a cheap and a very easy task. 
Passe Partout. 
